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State of Minnesota’s Software-Defined

Data Center JourneyHoward Johnson, State of MN

Phil Balfanz, VMware, Inc.

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Speakers Bio's

Howard Johnson

Cloud Architect for the State of Minnesota

12 years experience in virtualization and over 20 in infrastructure.

Phil Balfanz

VMware Solution Engineer covering SLED

4.5 Years at VMware


Agenda

Agenda

State of Minnesota Overview and Challenges

State of Minnesota/VMware Solution

Lessons Learned

Q & A

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About the State of Minnesota• Our Mission: We partner with Minnesota state

agencies to deliver technology solutions that transform how government provides services for the people of Minnesota.

• Secure data for 5.577M Residents

• Secure and Manage systems at over 1300 locations

• ~2800 Applications Supported

• 32,000+ State Employees

• 2000 IT Staff

• Connect 87 Counties

• Manage and maintain 4368 virtual machines and 1598 physical servers


Powers, duties, responsibilities, personnel, and assets relating to functions assigned to the chief information

officer… are transferred to the Office of Enterprise Technology from all other state agencies… by October 1,

2011, with the exception of state agency chief information officers which are transferred 30 days after final enactment.

By July 1, 2013, the state chief information officer shall control and direct all information and telecommunication

technology spending authorized under Minnesota Statutes, section 16E.016.2


Assistant Commissioner Directive

• State of MN is consolidating all of the Executive Branch agencies IT to provide the following

• Secure Systems

• Broader Depth of expertise

• Technology availability to all agencies regardless of size or budget

• Highly Secured and resilient Datacenters

• Purchasing power

• Better use of resources

• Better user experience



Challenges

Time to Deliver

Complex Network

MN.IT Perception

Secure the State


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State Budgets

• IT Budgets going down• Being asked to do more with less• Moving IT From a cost center to a business value• Since consolidation MN.IT has realized nearly $60M of cost avoidance


State of Minnesota Solution Overview




Private cloud Public cloud

Horizon vRealize

Data Center 1: VMware Cloud Foundation

SDDC Manager

vSANvSphere NSX

Data Center 2: VMware Cloud Foundation

SDDC Manager

vSANvSphere NSX

HorizonvRealize AutomationvRealize Operations

vRealize Network InsightvRealize Business

Pro

fessional Services

VMware Solution



State of Minnesota Architecture

Key Points:

Vendors working together

ACI Underlay• Physical

Performance/Protection

VCF Stretched Between Datacenters

Flattened Network and implemented NSX for Macro and micro segmentation.

Moved to a HCI solution

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Automation of Standup• Entire Rack

Life Cycle Management• SDDC Manager• Hosts• Foundation Components (vCenter, NSX,

VSAN, ToR)

HCI Solution• Better Automation/Integration• Replace aging SAN hardware and infrastructure• Lower cost solution than traditional SAN• Already in use at some remote sites• Encryption of Data at rest

VMware Cloud Foundation Benefits to the State



Self Service Portal• Governance• Multi-Cloud

vRealize Operations• Integrate Suite of products• Replace Existing monitoring solution• Agency visibility into resource consumption and cost• Intelligent Workload Placement• Environment Security Monitoring (CJIS, PCI) and

corrective action

vRealize Network Insight• Micro-segmentation recommendations

Cloud Management Platform

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Get buy in and involvement early in process

Stick with what is supported not roadmap

Avoid Snowflakes

SDDC Manager is still maturing

Work closely with vendors and partners

Recognize small wins

Lessons Learned



https://mn.gov/mnit/

https://www.vmware.com/it-priorities/modernize-data-centers.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/data-center-virtualization/application-centric-infrastructure/index.html

Resources


Questions


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